2010 is here and it is now time to focus on what you want to accomplish in the New Year. If you haven’t set your goals yet…what are you waiting for!! This list is a great place to start. And if you have set your goals, this Top 10 List will give you a checklist to ensure you are set up for success.
1. The first step to goal setting is being specific! Examine your life and figure out what you want to change, then narrow it down to one specific thing you can realistically change in a specific time period.
2. Once you have chosen your goal, write it down and post it where you will see it multiple times a day. A customized screen saver is a great way to keep your goal in front of you; a note on your fridge or taped to your TV Read More...
In this article, I am going to share some helpful ideas to help you turn your hopes, wishes, and dreams into your future reality.
Goals and buildings have several characteristics that are very similar. If a building is engineered properly, and built with structural integrity; when the storms blow, the building stands; when the earth shakes, the building stands. If a building lacks that structural integrity, the storms force is likely to reduce it to rubble. Your goals are the same way.
If your goals are engineered with the proper dynamics in place; when adversity strikes, your goals will stay clear; when the unexpected happens; you will adapt and move closer to your objective and Read More...
If you are a reader of this blog, you more than likely have a goal. You took the time to carefully plan it out. You made sure it was meaningful to you, specific, measurable, had a due date, the right size, written down and reviewed. But now that you are halfway through the year you realize you haven’t made the progress you were hoping for.
Some obstacles may have come up, aka roadblocks to your success. They might have been big or small, you may or may not have had control over them, but one thing is clear. To reach your goal you must overcome them.
So for this month’s contest, we want to know:
What is your biggest obstacle towards hitting your goals and how do you overcome Read More...
Here is an interesting fact for you: An airplane is constantly a few degrees off course. Think about that. Before a plane takes off, it will have a flight plan drawn out. Then while it is in the air, the plane will be off course most of the way. How then, can it arrive at the correct city at the correct time?
The similarities between an airplane’s flight path and life are quite striking. Think about goal setting. In the past, you may have set a goal, started working on it, and the whole time you were off course. Yet, like the plane, you still reached your destination, your goal, on time. How can this be?
It can be that way because a plane has something called automatic Read More...
We just found a super cool (and free) website/service that increases your accountability to your goals and commitments by allowing you to put a “contract” on yourself.
The website is www.stickK.com and it is free to use.
You make a “Commitment Contract” with yourself and set the stakes as to what happens when you miss a check-in or your goal.
The Commitment Contract concept is based on two well known principles of behavioral economics:
1. People don’t always do what they claim they want to do, and
2. Incentives get people to do things
Here is how it works:
1 – Go to Read More...
Why wait for your manager to cook up contests, rewards and incentives? Keep your business fresh and exciting by creating your own fun and games.
If you are like me, you take great pride in being paid on commission and wouldn’t have it any other way. But sometimes, the regular commission plan is not enough to keep the old fire of desire red hot and ready.
Just as your muscles adapt to your regular training routine and need changing stimuli to keep up the training effect. The human psyche also adapts. So juice up your work with a little extra challenge.
Set up a short term contest for yourself. Just as some companies might offer a cash spiff or dinner and a show for hitting a sales quota, you Read More...
There’s a new quick and easy way to put your goals to paper. It’s called the Dear God Letter process.
It’s a simple online application that requires 10 minutes of your time and your attention and focus on your goals. Really connecting with your dreams and desires and then writing them down using the application makes it fast and fun to get them down on paper. Then you can read them daily, share them with other people you know, and really live into the life of your dreams.
Here’s how it works:
Go online and bring up the Dear God Letter website located at Read More...
A few years ago, I sat down at the end of August and set a new production goal for the rest of the year. Up until that point in time, my yearly goal was getting the better part of me instead of the other way around. Needless to say I was pretty far behind my yearly goal. Actually, it was less than 50% accomplished! To make matters worse, to come anywhere close to hitting that yearly production goal, a new company record would have to be set.
During a coaching session, my coach and I decided that if the goal was not providing any motivation, and acting more like a burden than something needed to be done. So what we decided to do was make a new goal for the rest of the year. Timing Read More...
Download the 3 Purposes of Goal Setting mp3
(1. Right click the link 2. Choose “Save Target As”)
What can transform a monotonous task into inspired service? A mundane job into a passionate career? What separates the man who is laying brick from the one building a cathedral? Purpose. Purpose which is the reason for which something is done or created. Purpose can also differentiate a quota from a goal. You’ve probably heard the 5 points of an effective goal. It must be:
1. Meaningful to You
2. The Right Size
3. Specific and Measurable with a Due Date
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It is time to set your 2009 goals for. You will probably have goals for your business, goals for your health and goals for your finances. But don’t forget to set a goal for mental growth, learning and improving yourself in 2009.
A great place to start is with a reading goal and, as an added bonus, a reading goal will probably help you achieve the goals in other areas of your life as well.
Here are the step-by-step instructions for setting a reading goal.
- Decide what books (or what category of books) are most meaningful to you. This is going to be very closely related to you larger goals for your life. If your business goals are high priority, you will definitely Read More...
